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northern drift is present in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, ** in 
as marked a manner as ever I saw it in countries celebrated for the pres- 
ence of such remains.’ 
He finds rounded hills, trap bosses, rounded rocks, and grooves, while 
the whole country is strewn with erratic boulders. Great masses, sixty to 
one hundred tons in weight, are found scattered everywhere over the 
island (Vancouver) from north to south, and through the region lying on 
the western slope of the Cascade Mountains. *' Grooving and other un- 
F 
— pipes near the boundary line of Alaska. — American Journal of 
BOULDERS IN ANCIENT TrMES. — In a communication made to the Acad- 
emy of Sciences of Vienna, M. Boué remarked on the accumulations of 
boulders in secondary deposits and in the sandstones and conglomerates 
of the tertiary period. These accumulations have been explained either 
placements, or by aqueous eruptio The most ancient of these blocks 
are found in the older parie sandstone. They have been traced 
between Jurassic and Cretaceous beds, and in the latter; but nowhere 
though he could not admit, as some geologists have, that the glaciers have 
hollowed out the basins of the lakes, or had existed in the course of al- 
most all geological periods. — Cosmos. 
Dr SCOVERY RESPECTING hen OLITHS. . Gümbel, of Munich, 
erto been didcaveród. He finds that the organic remains of these minute 
animals are left as a residuum after the matrix in which they occur has 
been heated with highly-diluted acetic or hydrochloric acid. 
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students or recent grids of the College. The main object of pans ex- 
